Show SEAPLANE fOUND I WITH ALL A l L ABOARD CREW OF 9 1 91 ARE PICKED UP I AT SEA AFTER TEN DAYS OF DRIFTING Submarine Out To Meet Fleet Sights Lost Craft Ship Is Found Fifteen teen Miles East Of Island Of Kauai Honolulu The Honolulu Honolulu The navy seaplane pr g SNo No 1 since September 1 was found September tenth by a submarine ine ins and her crew of five for whom hope had been abandoned rescued The seaplane was found floating in inthe inthe inthe the Pacific ocean fifteen miles e east t of othe the Island of the most north north- northerly northerly erly of the group sixt sixty four miles west b by north of the Island oj of Oahu on which this city is located Lieutenant D n R Osborn Jr com com- commander commander mander of the submarine R 4 reo re- reported re reported ported the finding of the seaplane s s briefly giving no details A late message from the R R 4 4 inter inter- intercepted intercepted intercepted here said The submarine R 4 is towing Pacific trans Pacific plane to Is- Is Island Is Island land of and expects to ar arrive rive about 8 S o'clock Please have small boat meet as at The U S S Tanager mine sweeper which has taken taken an especially especially- active I part In in the search for the sea seaplane lane started for Naw Nawiliwili lili li Island of I immediately expecting to are ar- arrive ar arrive rive there about 3 8 p m island time Aviation officers here estimated that the seaplane had fallen from to miles from Island of Maui Maui the first objective of the flight The position of the seaplane when picked up was the point where navi navi- navigators navigators navigators gators estimating from their knowl knowledge edge of the winds and currents around the islands had figured the seaplane to be last Saturday at 8 S a m As soon as word of the finding of the seaplane was received Admiral S S Robison commander chief of the battle fleet ordered all ships engaged in the search to return to Pearl hare har har- har harbor harbor bor at once Navy officers gave the highest praise and credit for the finding of the 9 No 1 to Commander Frank FrankC FrankC C Martin commanding the submarine base here who stationed his submarines ines in the positions which enabled them to pick up the seaplane hours after it had dropped into the sea I The destroyer MacDonough left for Kauai to pick up the five aviators and bring them to Honolulu In Honolulu the city went wild over the news Downtown streets filled with shrieking yelling elling mobs their joy and enthusiasm exceeding all conven conven- conventional conventional bounds White clad sailors from the recently arrived fleet were conspicuous in the crowds Distribution Distribution Distribution tion of newspapers with stories on the finding of the aviators almost caused several panics The aircraft tender Pelican also wa was ordered vi w the north to assist in tt towing ing the seaplane back to Pearl Harbor It was oft off the coast of Kauai that the minesweeper whippoorwill report report- reported reported ed seeing flares a day or two after the search tor for the missing plane had bad started A white flare and two red flares or rockets were believed to have been seen Immediately after a check of ot calculations the search search- searching searching ing ng operations were transferred to this region which was considerably outside of ot the zone t previously previously- searched searched search- search ed |